I guess I should hate you. Granted, I am quite misanthropic, so I have at least a moderate amount of hate for people in general, but you I should specifically hate because you are so annoyingly far to the right. However, you are quite an enigma. As a self-described polemicist, I wonder if you really believe many of the things you say, or if you just figured out an ingenious way to market yourself. You have made quite a career out of rampant conservatism, and your writing, though very adequate, would probably not have spawned six best sellers were it not so glaringly over-the-top. The fact that people question your true beliefs, and your real connection to the views you espouse should be some indication of just how laughable they really are.
You claim to be a creationist, and refer to evolution as “bogus science.” Really? Evolution is bogus science, but the belief that an invisible deity breathed onto mud and made a man is conceivable? Then he took out that guy’s rib and made a woman? Millions of years of tiny genetic alterations, that scientists have observed in current species as well as document in various historical account is bogus, but you think a fairy tale written thousands of years ago and translated dozens of times is logical? I smell polemics.
I could go on and on about your comments on Islam, or on the New York Times, or this newest angle you’re working where you are campaigning for Hillary Clinton, but refuting every single point you’ve ever made would be tiresome.
Perhaps you have discovered a powerful formula. As a writer myself, who is often know for my irony and sarcasm, as well as my ability to play Devil’s advocate, maybe positioning myself as the polar opposite counterpart to your character could be advantageous to my career. Clearly both you and O’Reilly were an inspiration to Colbert, so I’ll just be taking the conversations in a new direction.
I know what you’re thinking…the left already has one of those in Alan Colmes. What a weak exercise in pandering on the part of Fox. That show is like putting the Harvard debate team up against a five year old. Colmes may claim to hold liberal views on the some issues, but he rolls over like a courtesan in the prince’s quarters. I’ll be a more ambitious and outspoken liberal, who can balance passion and fervor with intellect and level-headedness. Not to mention being able to write political commentary without worrying too much about factual accuracy must be liberating.
My act is just the kind of turn the conservative, corporate-run media needs to take in order to keep from alienating the other half of the population.
Your companion in a quest for truth,
Mike
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Ah, Ann Coulter. I used to have an endless amount of loathing for him. I'm talking blood-boiling, frothing at the mouth hatred. He couldn't possibly believe the absurdities spewing from his mouth, right?. And it seemed like, the more popular he got, the books he wrote, the more television appearances he made, the crazier his statements got. Surely, this was just business. He's just saying these things because they get attention and drive up book sales.
But, then it happened. He drove that bus as far as it would go. Finally, people stopped listening. Book sales declined. And despite his desperate attempts to reclaim the controversial spotlight, it seemed no one was buying his brand of crazy anymore.
That's when I stopped worrying and learned to love Ann Coulter. Those of us on the left didn't have to work so hard at fighting his words. He brought himself down. The beau of the ball no longer. I'm sure he'll hang around for a while longer and likely has lots of spit left in him. But the power of persuasion he once had has been diminished. I love him because now even those who might have agreed with him at one point can see what we saw. It's actually a fitting symbol for what has happened to the Republican party as a whole.
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